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how to : hotlink protection

hi
how this option is supposed to work?
it supposed to prevent hotlinking to the full image from other domains but I can't figure what it means.
with that option and protected view option I can access to full image without being redirected to image page.

Normally the full image is linked directly and not via the full image page. It is internally used within the full image page and checks for the referrer if enabled and otherwise blocks the access. it is of course not 100% secure as browser can hide that referrer.

A real and proper hotlink protection is of course only possible server side using htaccess or similar on other systems. Everything that does not go through ZP itself is outside of its control.

Good work.
My rule was modifyed for Google Image Search, and by URLs without suffix there are linked to the image page directly when call the image URL. But Google Image Search removed the "View Image" button and it's no longer realy necessary. I will test yours.
Attention for your-replacement-image. It's possible search engine think this is cloaking.